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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jamesm
  3. From: jamesm@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (James Mihaychuk)
  4. Subject: Re: What are those things called...
  5. Message-ID: <Bs0D4v.466@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
  6. Sender: news@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (News Administrator)
  7. Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
  8. References: <1992Jul23.214214.8574@microplex.com>
  9. Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 18:10:07 GMT
  10. Lines: 14
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Jul23.214214.8574@microplex.com> hsk@microplex.com (Harjeet Kalsi) writes:
  13. >I know I've seen them in physics labs (including mine when I was in school) 
  14. >but forgotten what this "box" with two antennas, that has a high
  15. >voltage spark travelling between the antennas from bottom to top,
  16. >is called.
  17. >
  18. >hsk@microplex.com
  19.  
  20. My high school physics teacher told me it was called a Jacob's Ladder, although
  21. there might be other names.
  22. ---
  23. James Mihaychuk, indentured servant  You say your moon's in the seventh house,
  24. (lowly physics grad student)         But your butt spent three days on my couch
  25. jamesm@helios.physics.utoronto.ca    "Eternal Fatalist," the Lowest of the Low 
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